🔥 How to delay 1-month natively in Make.com

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Hi Makers :wave:

Here’s how to set up Zapier-like 1-month (or even greater) delay action within Make.com natively using a clever trick.

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Here’s the blueprint:

{
    "subflows": [
        {
            "flow": [
                {
                    "id": 14,
                    "module": "util:SetVariables",
                    "version": 1,
                    "parameters": {},
                    "mapper": {
                        "variables": [
                            {
                                "name": "twitter",
                                "value": "www.twitter.com/hmlchy"
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "subject",
                                "value": "Make automation"
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "body",
                                "value": "hello world"
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "exe start ",
                                "value": "{{var.scenario.executionStartedAt}}"
                            }
                        ],
                        "scope": "roundtrip"
                    },
                    "metadata": {
                        "designer": {
                            "x": -1434,
                            "y": 559
                        },
                        "restore": {
                            "expect": {
                                "variables": {
                                    "items": [
                                        null,
                                        null,
                                        null,
                                        null
                                    ]
                                },
                                "scope": {
                                    "label": "One cycle"
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        "expect": [
                            {
                                "name": "variables",
                                "type": "array",
                                "label": "Variables",
                                "spec": [
                                    {
                                        "name": "name",
                                        "label": "Variable name",
                                        "type": "text",
                                        "required": true
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "name": "value",
                                        "label": "Variable value",
                                        "type": "any"
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "scope",
                                "type": "select",
                                "label": "Variable lifetime",
                                "required": true,
                                "validate": {
                                    "enum": [
                                        "roundtrip",
                                        "execution"
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ],
                        "interface": [
                            {
                                "name": "twitter",
                                "label": "twitter",
                                "type": "any"
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "subject",
                                "label": "subject",
                                "type": "any"
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "body",
                                "label": "body",
                                "type": "any"
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "exe start ",
                                "label": "exe start ",
                                "type": "any"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                },
                {
                    "id": 15,
                    "module": "util:SetVariable2",
                    "version": 1,
                    "parameters": {},
                    "mapper": {
                        "name": "go!",
                        "scope": "roundtrip",
                        "value": "{{if(formatDate(addMinutes(14.`exe start `; 4319); \"x\") > formatDate(now; \"x\"); formatNumber(\"X\"); formatNumber(1; 0))}}"
                    },
                    "metadata": {
                        "designer": {
                            "x": -941,
                            "y": 562
                        },
                        "restore": {
                            "expect": {
                                "scope": {
                                    "label": "One cycle"
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        "expect": [
                            {
                                "name": "name",
                                "type": "text",
                                "label": "Variable name",
                                "required": true
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "scope",
                                "type": "select",
                                "label": "Variable lifetime",
                                "required": true,
                                "validate": {
                                    "enum": [
                                        "roundtrip",
                                        "execution"
                                    ]
                                }
                            },
                            {
                                "name": "value",
                                "type": "any",
                                "label": "Variable value"
                            }
                        ],
                        "interface": [
                            {
                                "name": "go!",
                                "label": "go!",
                                "type": "any"
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "onerror": [
                        {
                            "id": 16,
                            "module": "builtin:Break",
                            "version": 1,
                            "parameters": {},
                            "mapper": {
                                "retry": true,
                                "count": "1",
                                "interval": "4320"
                            },
                            "metadata": {
                                "designer": {
                                    "x": -789,
                                    "y": 837,
                                    "messages": [
                                        {
                                            "category": "badsettings",
                                            "severity": "error",
                                            "message": "This directive requires storing of incomplete executions to be enabled."
                                        }
                                    ]
                                },
                                "restore": {
                                    "expect": {
                                        "retry": {
                                            "mode": "chose"
                                        }
                                    }
                                },
                                "expect": [
                                    {
                                        "name": "retry",
                                        "type": "boolean",
                                        "label": "Automatically complete execution",
                                        "required": true
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "name": "count",
                                        "type": "uinteger",
                                        "label": "Number of attempts",
                                        "validate": {
                                            "min": 1,
                                            "max": 10000
                                        },
                                        "required": true
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "name": "interval",
                                        "type": "uinteger",
                                        "label": "Interval between attempts",
                                        "validate": {
                                            "min": 1,
                                            "max": 44640
                                        },
                                        "required": true
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "version": 1
    }
}

Hopefully, it helps, and make sure to comment and let me know your feedback.

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Brilliant stuff @make_expert :muscle:

Thanks so much for sharing this with the community! I’m sure this is gonna prove incredibly useful to many users :pray:

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Hello,

Thank you for sharing this hack, I would love to try it because it might partly help me to solve a delay issue that I have but unfortunately I wasn’t able to import the blueprint into Make. I’ve saved it in a note app and covert the file to json then imported it to Make. But it looks empty. Any idea why ? or would you be able to upload the json file directly please ?

Thank you for your help :slight_smile:
Laura

4

Make sure you properly copy the blueprint json, it still works on my end.

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I did copy properly, as soon as I import the json. I had a message saying that “the scenario was successfully loaded”

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But instead of having the scenario with the modules, I have a blank page …

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Oh I see, I should have explained before, you can copy and paste the blueprint to your make scenario. You don’t have to import. Just copy the code and paste it in your scenario editor

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So simple ! Thanks :slight_smile:

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